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Re: Sort by most recently active thread

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On Friday, August  8 at 04:07 PM, quoth Ethan Mallove:
> Is there a way to have mutt sort by most recently active thread? It 
> appears that mutt dates an email thread by the timestamp of the 
> initiating thread email.

Yes!

    set sort_aux=last-date-received

- From the manual:

    sort_aux
        Type: sort order
        Default: date

        When sorting by threads, this variable controls how threads
        are sorted in relation to other threads, and how the branches
        of the thread trees are sorted.  This can be set to any value 
        that "$sort"  can, except threads (in that case, mutt will
        just use date-sent).  You can also specify the last- prefix 
        in addition to the reverse- prefix, but last- must come after
        reverse-.  THE LAST- PREFIX CAUSES MESSAGES TO BE SORTED
        AGAINST ITS SIBLINGS BY WHICH HAS THE LAST DESCENDANT, USING
        THE REST OF SORT_AUX AS AN ORDERING.  For instance, set
        sort_aux=last- date-received would mean that if a new message
        is received in a thread, that thread becomes the last one
        displayed (or the first, if you have set
        sort=reverse-threads.)  Note: For reversed "$sort" order
        $sort_aux is reversed again (which is not the right thing to
        do, but kept to not break any existing configuration setting).

~Kyle
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